URL: <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?48856>
Summary: Timeout not transitive to sub-menus Project: GNU GRUB Submitted by: jaromir_capik Submitted on: Mon 22 Aug 2016 12:35:30 PM GMT Category: None Severity: Major Priority: 5 - Normal Item Group: Software Error Status: None Privacy: Public Assigned to: None Originator Name: Originator Email: Open/Closed: Open Discussion Lock: Any Release: Release: 1.99 Reproducibility: Every Time Planned Release: None _______________________________________________________ Details: The current timeout behavior doesn't make much sense. The purpose of the timeout is to select one of the choices automatically when no user intervention is detected. In some cases the entry we want to select as default is in one of the configured sub-menus and in that case the grub behavior needs to be tweaked. If the timeout setting is omitted in the sub-menu config, then we stuck in the sub-menu forever in case of no user input. And if we configure a timeout in the sub-menu, then it forces the user to hit a key in order to stop the second (and often unexpected) countdown even when he already interrupted the countdown by making a manual choice in the main menu. I believe the timeout should be just one (defined in the main menu) and once it is reached, the grub should automatically (and with no more waiting) descend to all sub-menus respecting the configured default entries for all sub-menus it goes through. _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?48856> _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/ _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list Bug-grub@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub